This is going to be another night of no sleep

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OMFG. Last night I got almost no sleep and tonight is going to be no different. In order for IV pumps to work (if the needle is at the inside of your elbow) you need to keep your arms straight. If they are bent for any length of time the flow stops and the pump starts beeping in warning. It took me some time to learn how to avoid that. This old woman in this room with me has one too but it has become clear that she is in some early-ish stage of dementia because she doesn't understand what the nurses and techs keep telling her. She also has some significant hearing loss because it can beep for 10 minutes and she won't hear it whether she is asleep or awake. It has kept me up for the past 2 nights. I hit the call button every time so not only do I get pissed but so does the staff that has to come clear it to shut it up. Like this will happen every 2 or 3 minutes. So I've given up on sleep tonight. Hopefully I will be discharged tomorrow because this is absolute BS. I'm ready to unplug the thing. I don't care what the medication is.